Chaos Theater takes on a double feature of sci-fi noir classics with our discussions of Dark City and Gattaca, featuring guest Dale Rausch. Before that, we catch up on what we've been doing and slay the sacred cow of hating on popular games. As previously announced on Laplace's Box, we've set up a Google Voice number so you can leave us a voicemail for inclusion in the show. Call 305-792-8324, but be sure to specify that your message is for Chaos Theater, and keep it under 4 minutes. Next time, we follow a blue space vampire's quest for revenge with a discussion of Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo.

Music Featured in this Episode:"Boing Zoom DAKOTA!" from Rock Candy 1 by Shadow"Your Rain" from Silent Hill 4 by Akira Yamaoka with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn"Breeze - in Monochrome Night" from Silent Hill 3 by Akira Yamaoka

_________________"What did catch my eye, however, was a podcast named Gundamn!. At first I thought it was a podcast about firearms and [rednecks] discussing their collection, but after looking at the episode titles I was sold." - Xhavalor

Great segments on a pair of great films. I've been a long time Dark City fan and saw Gattaca finally a few years ago.

On Dark City, I think something worthy of mention is how similar the film was in theme and style to the old anime film Urusei Yatsura movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer, which was about the old japanese myth that the word was a flat disc transported on the back of a giant turtle flying thru the heavens. The visual parallels between that and Dark City are pretty astounding.

The final fight scene between Murdoch and the Strangers had a very anime/Akira type feel to it as well.

I remember going to the theatre to see Gattaca with a group of "friends" and being the only person who liked it. In fact, everyone else hated it and hated on me for enjoying it. I guess it didn't have enough explosions for them. So, thanks for allowing me to not feel like an outcast for loving this great film.

We had to watch Gattaca in biology class in high school (???). That show you talked about a few episodes ago on Gundamn! reminded me of it (something about some non-astronaut guy working his way into the space program). Dark City on the other hand always looked way too creepy for me. Can't wait to hear your guys' thoughts on them (though I'm more hyped for the Gankutsuou episode!)

Just finished listening to the episode.Dark City and Gattaca never seen, I always did see this poster for Gattaca in school days and I was kind of curious due to it being up on the wall in an art room and all that.

May have to look in to them, the Crow is one I also want to look in to having seen it in stores.

As for mailbag answers.I'm surprised neither of you mentioned the Contra games Having seen some clips on youtube on the harder difficulty they look insane on some of those final bosses.

The new Andrew Niccol movie (Just in Time?) sounds just like the fake 'manga within a manga' that they made up in the comic series Bakuman. After seeing "Law Abiding Citizen", I think Hollywood screenwriters secretly keep stashes of Tsugumi Ohba manga around to get new manuscript ideas.

I enjoyed this episode. It was nice. Pedro seems to have consistent trouble with his audio in these past few episodes, though. It's like he's always drifting too far from his mic, but sometimes comes back into range. Is he on a headset or is his mic sitting on a desk or something?

Sorry I don't have much to say about Dark City and Gattaca, but I'm really looking forward to the Gankutsuou ep. =)

Also, may I ask why "I Robot" was supposedly such a bad movie? I enjoyed it, and I'm usually very critical of most Hollywood movies.

**edit: I also forgot something. You guys screwed up the Morgan Freeman-Vegeta line.

Obviously, when someone asks, "What does the scouter say?"

You're supposed to answer,

"IT'S OVER 9000!!!"

I demand that you make that correction in the next episode.

_________________"Red particles are bad, they mutate you into... dead? But green/blue particles are good, apparently, for reasons and for purposes yet to be determined. Isn't science sometimes nicely color-coded?"-AntaresGW: The Sword . Sera's Art . Gameplay . The Lost Citadel

I enjoyed this episode. It was nice. Pedro seems to have consistent trouble with his audio in these past few episodes, though. It's like he's always drifting too far from his mic, but sometimes comes back into range. Is he on a headset or is his mic sitting on a desk or something?

Sorry I don't have much to say about Dark City and Gattaca, but I'm really looking forward to the Gankutsuou ep. =)

Also, may I ask why "I Robot" was supposedly such a bad movie? I enjoyed it, and I'm usually very critical of most Hollywood movies.

It's a hardware issue, so there's not much he can do about it until we get some better equipment. As for I, Robot, it's generally just a bad movie full of so many sci-fi cliches, like the fact that it's set in the future, but has a "retro" guy whose favorite time period happens to coincide with the time the movie was released. That's a small thing, but the biggest problem for me is that it's not an actual adaptation of Asimov. It was written as an entirely different movie called Hardwired, and they simply slapped the I, Robot name and the Three Laws onto it to make it more high profile.

_________________"What did catch my eye, however, was a podcast named Gundamn!. At first I thought it was a podcast about firearms and [rednecks] discussing their collection, but after looking at the episode titles I was sold." - Xhavalor

I'm pretty sure I watched both of these back to back during one of many idle weekends in the dorms digging through the film library's high-concept sci-fi flicks with my buddies from the fine arts department. good times had by all, then we spent 2 hours finding a pizza place that delivered after 3am.